Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
 August 1, 2008
Understanding the operation and maintenance of the anesthesia deliver system (ADS) is essential for operator and patient safety.
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2008
By:Jennifer Dupre, CVT, VTS
A good anesthetist must have an understanding of normal physiology -- as this it is altered by general anesthesia.
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2008
By:Jennifer Dupre, CVT, VTS
Allen Lakein said "planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now".
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
 July 1, 2008
By:Robert M. Stein, DVM, Dipl. AAPM, Stephanie Ortel, BS, LVT, CCRP
While this review will focus on postoperative pain management, it is important that we acknowledge the critical perioperative elements that lay the foundation for ideal patient pain management. Pain control needs to be in place before the surgeon's blade contacts skin in order to minimize central and peripheral sensitization. Without adequate pre-emptive analgesia, the nociceptive process ramps up unabated by general anesthesia. Receptor sensitivity increases and structural rewiring can occur.
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
June 1, 2008
By:Melissa Marshall, DVM, Dipl. ACVECC, Lisa P. Weeth, DVM, Dipl. ACVN
Nutritional needs often play a secondary role to medical and surgical intervention. Critically ill veterinary patients are at high risk for malnutrition because of physical impediments, as well as physiologic and metabolic abnormalities. Protein and/or calorie malnutrition results in decreased immune competence, decreased tissue synthesis, increased protein degradation (especially that of the lymphatic system), altered drug metabolism and is known to increase morbidity and mortality in human patients. Although veterinary studies are lacking, it is generally accepted that early enteral nutrition decreases complications from malnutrition.
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Source: VETERINARY ECONOMICS
 May 7, 2008
By:Phil Seibert, CVT
Should our pregnant associate use a respirator during surgeries to avoid inhaling anesthetic gases?
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
 April 1, 2008
Hypoventilation (decreased rate and/or depth of breathing) is a common consequence of general anesthesia and results in increased arterial carbon dioxide concentrations (PaCO2).
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
April 1, 2008
By:Cynthia Trim, BVSc, MRCVS, DVA, DACV, DECVA
The primary concerns for anesthesia for dogs with spinal neurologic disease are the need to prevent pulmonary aspiration of gastric fluid if food has not been withheld, to maintain a low intracranial pressure (ICP) and therefore a low spinal cord pressure, and the provision for pain management.
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